Ovarian cancer: Any progress?

Ovarian cancer screening: are there any options?

Digital Object Identifi er: 10.1188/05.CJON.369-372 Ovarian cancer is the leading cause of death among cancers of the reproductive system (22,220 cases are estimated for 2005) and the fourth-leading cause of all cancer deaths among American women (16,210 estimated deaths in 2005) (American Cancer Society [ACS], 2005). In the general population, 1 in 70 women, or 1.5% of all women, will develop ...

the ijoem: any progress?

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The IJOEM: any progress?

S urfing on the wings of time, days turned into weeks. Weeks turned into months. And, I found myself at a point to write you again—three months after the first issue of The IJOEM. Since then, many things happened: the Journal was welcomed by various healthcare professionals so that its Web site (www.theijoem.com and www. theijoem.org), received more than 60 000 hits almost three weeks after it ...

Cancer clinical trial outcomes: any progress in tumour-size assessment?

Cancer for many patients is still a lethal disease, and we are at the edge of the time that it will be the leading cause of death in the western world. One of the hallmarks of cancer is its ability to spread to other organs, turning cancer in essence to a systemic disease. For this reason, systemic therapy plays an important role in our efforts to either obtain cure or to prolong life and palli...

Any progress in systematic design ?